Tuesday, December 27, 2005
I was mostly working through Christmas. As opposed to the popular public celebrations in Asia during this time, most of America seems to celebrate X’mas at home with family and the streets are all but deserted. The Yuletide spirit did, however, rain down a lot of programming goodies onto me. I had been searching forever [...]
Thursday, December 22, 2005
For the first (and likely the last) time today, I took a final exam in MIT. There was four subjects being examined in the same examination hall, which was inside a large indoor basketball court – very much like some exam halls in NTU (Singapore). There, the similarities end. MIT admin staff probably select the [...]
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
The Inquirer has an interesting argument to make: Apple, the long forgotten subject of this article, is different. It doesn’t compete against anything at all. The industrial design focus group is one turtleneck wielding man, not a watered down group of suburban housewives who fit into income category 12A, or teens in the hip-hop demographic. [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
What began as mild irritation last night has grown into serious ire. The del.icio.us social bookmarking site has been down for almost 15 hours now. I rely heavily on it for managing my bookmarks. The “latest links” section on the sidebar of my blog is tied to it; but the loss of that is a [...]
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Miracles do happen. The entire Indian Parliament has come to a unanimous agreement about an issue – the dropping of former India captain Sourav Ganguly from the third test against Sri Lanka to be played at Ahmedabad starting Sunday. It is reported that the Prime Minister nearly had a heart attack on hearing that the [...]
Friday, December 16, 2005
If you read one article on the Internet today, let it be this one. A real insight for anyone who has struggled with finding the right career, and a real eye-opener for anyone who hasn’t. [via Sherene's blog]
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Meditations is a series of philosophical notes which was written by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius sometime in the 2nd century A.D. That the book has survived for nearly two millennia is amazing. What’s even better is that the wisdom of this work – almost every question asked or answered – is still as applicable today. [...]
Monday, December 12, 2005
The Economist describes scientific arguments that confirm the trend of global warming: The first, and most basic, is the continuation of the warming trend at the Earth’s surface that has been happening since the early 20th century… the ten years to 2004 were the warmest decade since reliable measurements began in the early 19th century. [...]
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Finally, second-class citizens in the Google Universe (Mac users) get Google Earth. Well, depends on how you look at it… I grabbed an unofficial version off the net and ran it – and it works! Here’s a screenshot… It definitely is VERY beta though… if you ask it to auto-go to a site, it virtually [...]
Saturday, December 10, 2005
In the latest MIT hack, some dude painted highway signs on the infinite corridor of MIT yesterday. I was lucky enough to get a few shots. Couldn’t divine the purpose though :) Of course, all of this had disappeared by today :)
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